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blaksaga
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 Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:17 am Post subject: giftd at startup |
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| How would I get gift to automatically run at startup? Either that or get it to automatically load and close when giftcurs opens and closes!? Any suggestions!? |
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kernja
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:10 am Post subject: |
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maybe try something like this to make it start with giftcurs
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
giftd -d;
giftcurs;
killall giftd;
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put that in a file like /usr/bin/gift_start
Alternatively you could put the line
in /etc/conf.d/local.start and
in /etc/conf.d/local.stop to start it at boot |
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idoneus
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Location: Graz, Austria
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:14 am Post subject: |
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There are various ways to accomplish this.
You could either add it to your local.start in /etc/conf.d/
| Code: | # /etc/conf.d/local.start:
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/conf.d/local.start,v 1.4 2002/11/18 19:39:22 azarah Exp $
# This is a good place to load any misc.
# programs on startup ( 1>&2 )
/usr/bin/giftd -d |
While this may be the easier way, it's not really an ideal solution.
I usually write small start stop scripts to accomplish such tasks.
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
#
#-----------------------------------------------------
# simple script to start giftd at boot time.
#-----------------------------------------------------
#
depend() {
need net
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting giftd"
/usr/bin/giftd -d
eend $? "Failed to start giftd"
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping giftd"
#something else would be better than just sending the kill signal
killall giftd
eend $? "Failed to stop giftd"
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Simply copy this code to a file, e.g. giftd, in /etc/init.d/.
Then run | Code: | | rc-update add giftd default |
The next reboot should launch giftd automatically and inform you with an [OK] next to Starting giftd... when it succeeded.
If you don't want to reboot you just have to run | Code: | | /etc/init.d/giftd start |
I hope this suits your needs. |
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blaksaga
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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localhost init.d # rc-update add giftd default
* giftd not executable; skipping
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blaksaga
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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localhost root # gift_start
-bash: /usr/bin/gift_start: Permission denied
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Why would permission be denied...even as root??? |
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princeofchaos
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| chmod +x gift_start |
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idoneus
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| princeofchaos wrote: | | chmod +x gift_start |
same is true for the start stop script. sorry that I forgot to mention that one. |
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blaksaga
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 4:07 am Post subject: thanks |
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| Thanks all it works great. I appreciate the help! |
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m@o
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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for me it didn't work at first.
the problem was that i did configurate my gift as normal user
i changed the script to the follwing and it works for me:
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#!/sbin/runscript
#
#-----------------------------------------------------
# simple script to start giftd at boot time.
#-----------------------------------------------------
#
depend() {
need net
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting giftd"
su - MYUSERID && /usr/bin/giftd -d
exit
eend $? "Failed to start giftd"
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping giftd"
#something else would be better than just sending the kill signal
killall giftd
eend $? "Failed to stop giftd"
} |
hth
m@o |
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